Contents.

Chapter I. Page

[The Three Great Bags of Money] 11

Chapter II.

[A New Social Order of Things] 13

Chapter III.

[The Period of Barter] 15

Chapter IV.

[How They Invented Money] 20

Chapter V.

[How the People on the Island and Elsewhere Learned Wisdom] 26

Chapter VI.

[Gold, and How they Came to Use It] 33

Chapter VII.

[How the Islanders Determined to be an Honest and Free People] 50

Chapter VIII.

[How the People on the Island Came to Use Currency in the Place of Money] 55

Chapter IX.

[War with the Cannibals, and What Came of It] 60

Chapter X.

[After the War] 72

Chapter XI.

[The New Millennium] 83

Chapter XII.

[Getting Sober] 108